On March 6, the IKM-Manning School Board voted unanimously to close the classroom sections of its school building in Manilla. The building, which turns 100 next year, will continue to be used for junior high sporting events, as a central office and as a bus stop.

“There is no best decision in this kind of deal for the community”

~Brian Lingle, Manilla resident

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Harsh words fly in a packed auditorium.

Fingers point in accusations of bias. Calls for community cooperation are met with bitter dissent. The scene is familiar in rural Iowa as shrinking populations force school districts to make the financial decision to consolidate or close school buildings - often the pride of the small towns in which they reside.

Carroll High School Student Senate junior class representative Bianca
Irlbeck encouraged the Carroll Community School District Board of
Education to consider a mid- to early-August start date for the 2015-16
school year at its Monday night meeting.

The students took their first bites warily, but in the end, the eggplant
Parmesan was a hit. The dish was made in a foods class at
Glidden-Ralston High School last week. Joining it on the menu were
roasted vegetables and acorn squash with orange and cranberry compote.
The recipes are part of a new ProStart restaurant-management and
culinary-arts curriculum that Glidden-Ralston teacher Julie Leonard
incorporated into her foods classes this year.

Earl Schiltz, principal of Kuemper Catholic School’s St. Lawrence Center
(sixth through eighth grades) this month received the Good Shepherd
Award at the Catholic Diocese of Sioux City’s annual Bishop’s Dinner for
Catholic Schools.

Kuemper Catholic School technology educators and interns were on hand
last Thursday night to offer tips and tricks to parents — from how to
share a Google doc to how to track a child’s location — during the
school’s first parent tech training session.